Re: Bug#359062: debian-installer: bterm is not (yet) accessible for brltty

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > There's also no necessary connection that I can see between bterms's
> > display of asian characters in an utf-8 font and brltty. The installer
> > is not dependent on bterm to emit asian characters, all bterm provides
> > is a way to display said characters at the linux console.
> 
> And brltty needs a way to get these asian characters, hence it needs to
> peek it from bterm.

I don't now why you think utf-8 has to pass through bterm before being
valid utf-8. The debian installer supports displaying utf-8 characters
without using bterm at all in at least two other ways already; one of
them is to emit raw utf-8 to a ssh client that is running in a remote
utf-8 capable terminal.

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see shy jo

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